In 2021, what are the major events in Chinese football in the cold winter?
2021 is as harsh as winter for Chinese football. For the first time in the history of the Chinese Super League, the New Year's Eve finished, but with the cause of the epidemic and the withdrawal of neutral names and investors, the Chinese Super League clubs collectively fell into difficulties, and the tide of foreign aid escape began. And the women's football Olympics defeat, Li Tie and his men's football team became the target of public criticism, impacting the World Cup became a theoretical possibility. Now, 2021 is about to pass, Li Xiaopeng has become the new manager of the national football team, and Shandong Taishan has regained the Vulcan Cup. In 2022, can football return to its original form?
2021 is a year of high and low for Li Tie, the former coach of the national football team. The national team played the slogan of "unity is iron", and Li Tie did not live up to expectations at the beginning, leading the team 7-0 Guam, 2-0 Philippines, 5-0 Maldives, 3-1 Syria in the round of 40, and 4 consecutive victories to advance to the top 12.
But after entering the round of 12, the storm suddenly changed. Li Tie's tactics and use of naturalized players have been questioned by the outside world, after consecutive defeats to Australia and Japan, facing Vietnam, the team was tied in the lead and barely survived by a dead end; and against Oman, the team replaced Luo Guofu in the lead and was finally drawn by the opponent. Subsequently, although the draw with Australia, the qualifying situation has become very serious.
What has made Li Tie the target of public criticism is his controversial remarks at press conferences and social media. After the draw with Australia, he completely ended his career as a national football coach in a "self-detonating" manner.
Shandong Taishan regained the Vulcan Cup after 11 years. Before Evergrande opened the Golden Dollar trend of Chinese football, Taishan has always been one of the three giants of the Chinese Super League, and in the case of the decline of Shide at the beginning of this century and the negative expectations of Shenhua, Taishan has won 4 championships in 11 years, which is the strongest team in the same period of the Chinese Super League.
However, with Evergrande's entry into the Chinese Super League, Huaxia Happiness, Quan Jian, Suning, SIPG, etc. have followed up, and although Taishan has had two runner-up results in the following 10 years, most of the time it is still to compete for the AFC Champions League seat as its own responsibility, and even have the embarrassment of relegation. However, after Evergrande and other clubs could not protect themselves due to economic reasons, Shandong Taishan, which has been steadily investing, was basically unhindered on the way to winning the championship, and its youth players scored 85% of the goals scored by local players. At present, Shandong Taishan has shifted its attention to the FA Cup final, which will launch an impact on the double crown.
The impact of the epidemic and the top 12 finals eventually led to the First New Year's Eve in the history of the Chinese Super League. Before this season, the defending champion Jiangsu Suning could not find a next home to take over, and directly announced the dissolution on February 28, and the players could only find their own way out. Zhou Yun, after the 90s, was discouraged and directly retired, and foreign aides such as Teixeira and Eder are still begging for unpaid wages.
The impact of the epidemic factors, coupled with the New Deal of the Football Association and its own business difficulties, has made it difficult for many teams in the Chinese Super League. After the 8th chinese Super League champion Guangzhou team investor Evergrande suffered a crisis, the team owed wages, Cannavaro coaching team, naturalized players Axon, Alan and other 5 people have terminated the contract and left.
It is reported that in the top 16 of the Chinese Super League, there are only four teams that have not owed wages this season: Shandong Taishan, Shanghai Haigang, Henan Songshan Longmen and Dalian Renren. Among the other 12 teams, the longest Hebei team did not pay salaries and bonuses for more than a year, and the training base was forced to stop work due to 50,000 yuan of water and electricity bills. Qingdao players did not get unpaid wages for more than 8 months, Wu Jingui had no choice but to resign; Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic owed wages for more than 6 months, and coach Zhang Wailong could only buy cheap bread from his own pocket to fill his hunger. And these clubs are pinning their hopes on the share reform method to save the team's plan, and there is still no optimistic progress.
Under the strict prevention and control policy of the new crown epidemic and the economic crisis suffered by the club, the chinese and super card foreign aides finally chose to leave. The Jiangsu team disbanded, Teixeira and Eder naturally left; Beijing Guoan's former super foreign aid group Augusto, Vieira, Bakambu and Jin Weiya left the team successively; Evergrande was affected by the economic situation, Paulinho, Talisca, as well as naturalized players Axon, Luo Guofu, Alan and Fernando also left the team; Arnautovic of Shanghai Harbor also left the team; Henan's Ivo and Shanghai Shenhua's Moreno... With the great escape of foreign aid, the brand shrinkage and decline of the Chinese Super League have become a foregone conclusion. At the same time, the departure of naturalized players will also have some impact on the national football team to a greater or lesser extent.
Due to the epidemic, the Chinese team only participated in one game at home in 2021 (7-0 in Suzhou to Guam), the remaining 9 games were played in the third party in West Asia, and 4 home games in the round of 12 were cancelled. Due to the different epidemic prevention and control policies in many places, the national football team spends most of its time in the cycle of flight, isolation, competition, and re-isolation.
From the beginning of the training camp for the top 40 competition on May 15, to the return to China after the match with Australia, until the official end of the quarantine on December 7, in the 219 days, the national football team quarantine time is close to 90 days.
If you add to the long flights and multi-site travel, coupled with the isolation time with the club in the division, many players spend up to 4 months of the year in the wandering and hotel rooms. Coach Li Tie also fired frequently at the press conference, saying that "there are already 6 points at home" and "we are not easy, like children who have not returned home.".
After Li Tie left class, the Chinese Football Association chose Li Xiaopeng, the coach of Wuhan Zhuoer Team, to take over the national football coaching whip and compete in the round of 12. However, at present, the situation of China's national football team is very grim, and it has become a theoretical possibility to qualify, which brings a great test to Li Xiaopeng. Moreover, the national football team will also play against Vietnam on the first day of the Chinese New Year, will it add to the blockage of the people of the whole country? Li Xiaopeng's pressure was quite great.
In terms of coaching team construction, Li Xiaopeng will adopt the idea of "Chinese coach + foreign assistant". Although Li Xiaopeng has cooperated with a number of foreign assistants during his tenure as the head coach of the club, and also hopes to continue to the national team, due to the current global epidemic, it is difficult for the previous assistants to enter to help Li Xiaopeng, so he can only give up this idea and choose assistants nearby.
On December 7, the Tianjin Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Tianjin Municipal Commission of Supervision issued an official notice that Dong Wensheng, former chairman of Tianjin TEDA Club, and Li Guangyi, general manager, were suspected of serious violations of the law and were under disciplinary review and supervision investigation.
In 2008, Li Guangyi succeeded Li Bo as general manager of TEDA, and he did not leave until the end of 2015. "Here for more than eight years, there are many good memories, but also a lot of incomprehension and criticism, I just want to say that there is no shame." This is Li Guangyi's "feeling" after class.
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This season, there were supposed to be four teams in the AFC Champions League, but in the end only Guangzhou and Beijing Guoan entered the group stage. Jiangsu Suning, the defending champion who could have participated, withdrew, Shandong Taishan was penalized, and Shanghai Haigang, who replaced the participant, was eliminated in the play-offs.
Because of the epidemic, the AFC Champions League, which implemented the conference system, directly collided with the Chinese Super League, and after the Football Association refused to adjust the schedule, Guangzhou and Guoan had no choice but to send the U21 echelon-based reserve team to participate. In the end, the total result of the two teams was 1 draw and 11 losses, scoring 4 goals and conceding 40 goals, setting a record for the worst in the Chinese Super League. The saddest thing is guoan, before preparing to return to China, they encountered an epidemic in Uzbekistan, which caused some players to be infected, and 9 players and staff members were stranded for 157 days and nights before embarking on the return flight.
The situation of women's football is not much better than that of men's football. In April this year, in a two-legged knockout match against the South Korean women's football team, the Chinese women's football team staged a Jedi counterattack, eliminating the opponent in the tokyo Olympic Games with an aggregate score of 4-3 in two legs. However, in a favorable and applause situation, starting from the big list of coach Jia Xiuquan, until the fiasco of Brazil, the draw with Zambia, and the record loss to the Netherlands, the Chinese women's football team played the worst Olympic Games in history. The big defeat was accompanied by various controversies off the field. Coach Jia Xiuquan's use and encouragement of Wang Shuang is considered to be a suppression of the star, and Tang Jiali's "injury doubts" and so on have become hot spots in public opinion.
After returning to China, the women's football team transformed into the "Olympic United Team" and won the championship of the Shaanxi National Games under the leadership of Shui Qingxia. After that, the competition for the women's football coach also became the focus, and finally Shui Qingxia, who did not sign up for the competition, officially took the lead.
After Wu Lei, Chinese football has set off a wave of staying in the west. First, women's football player Tang Jiali joined Theriad Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League, and then Shen Mengyu and Shen Monroe joined the Soviet Super League Celtic and Portuguese Sports respectively. Recently, two more players have embarked on the road to stay in the Ocean. Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank women's 00 defender Yang Shuhui joined Suvayo Chalang in Ligue 1, while Li Lei, another member of the Chinese men's national football team and playing for Beijing Guoan, joined the Swiss Super League grasshopper team. In the year of liturgy, Li Lei believes that everything is not too late. On December 29, in Beijing Guoan's match against Shandong Taishan, the champion of the New Branch Chinese Super League, Li Lei wore the captain's armband and played a full 90 minutes to complete the farewell match. He choked up after the game and said he hoped to come back to help Guoan win the Chinese Super League championship.
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